The FilmBath Festival kicks off this Thursday with 43 films being screened over a period of eleven days.

There is a huge range of films being screened this year, crossing ever genre from world-class documentaries like Lost in Vagueness to family films such as Wonderstruck, starring Julianne Moore.

There are films debuting in Bath, such as The Work and well-known classics, such as The Cry Game.

Adapted from the book We Can Be Heroes, written by local author Catherine Bruton, the film of the same name is being screened as part of the festival and will include a Q &A with the director, author and cast.

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Film Bath also has a feminist film rating, which is now being used by dozens of cinemas and film festivals across the UK.

Emma Stone and Steve Carell in Battle of the Sexes (Image: Film Bath Festival)

The F-Rating is awarded to any film that is directed by a woman and/or written by a woman. If the film also stars significant women in their own right, then it receives a Triple F-Rating, our gold standard.

Bath Festival organisers said: “We are incredibly proud that this year's festival is 51% F-Rated with superb films such as the wonderful animation The Breadwinner, and the biopic Professor Marston and the Wonder Woman with Luke Evans and Bella Heathcote; both films are triple F-Rated.”

Lost in Vagueness is being screened on Friday, November 3 (Image: Film Bath Festival)

As part of Film Bath’s commitment to representing all voices in film, there are eight movies in the Queer film strand.

These include Beach Rats, a LGBT coming of age story and A Fantastic Woman, described by The Hollywood Reporter as a: “film of startling intensity and sinuous mood shifts wrapped in a rock-solid coherence of vison.”

Annette Bening in Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (Image: Film Bath)